The interview aired from 8:15-9:30 PM ET. In that block of time, Cooper clocked 668K news-demo viewers and 2.382M total viewers. It’s a big boost compared to CNN’s prior four-week average of 379K news-demo viewers and 1.137M total viewers in the block of time.

Cooper dominated the demo in that time frame, but fell short of Fox News Channel (2.838M viewers, 585K) in overall audience. MSNBC logged 2.356M viewers, 490K of them in the 25-54 age bracket.

McDougal apologized to First Lady Melania Trump for McDougal’s alleged affair with the then reality-TV star, saying she wouldn’t want that to happen to her; she insisted Trump was in love with her, but also said he tried to pay her for their first sexual encounter, which she said hurt her a lot.

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